By MICHAEL GINGOLD
It’ll be doing a lot more than lurking unless a pair of brothers can stop it.
IFC Films and Shudder will bring WHEN EVIL LURKS exclusively to theaters October 6, followed by its premiere on the scream streamer October 27. Written and directed by Argentinean filmmaker Demián Rugna, who won wide acclaim for 2017’s TERRIFIED and has a segment in this month’s anthology feature SATANIC HISPANICS, it stars Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Silvina Sabater, Virginia Garofalo, Paula Rubinsztein and Luis Dziembrowski. The synopsis: “When brothers Pedro [Rodríguez] and Jimmy [Salomón] discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse–its very proximity poisoning the local livestock–they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community. Now they must outrun an encroaching evil as it corrupts and mutilates everyone it is exposed to, and enlist the aid of a wizened ‘cleaner,’ who holds the only tools that can stop this supernatural plague.” WHEN EVIL LURKS has its world premiere Wednesday, September 13 as part of Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival.
